UPDATE: Due to a huge over site on my part, this is now the complete list. Thx Lisa, and congrats! I'm sure you were wondering where your name was!
The purpose of the list is to encourage students in grades 9-12 to explore a variety of current books. Due to the diversity of this age range, Texas librarians should purchase titles on this list according to their individual collection policies. Each book on the list has been favorably reviewed for grades 9-12 in a professional review source.
| Title | Author | Pub | Publisher |
| An Unspeakable Crime: the Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank | Alphin, Elaine Marie | 2010 | Carolrhoda Books |
| Freefall | Anhalt, Ariela | 2010 | Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin |
| Candor | Bachorz, Pam | 2009 | Egmont USA |
| Ship Breaker | Bacigalupi, Paolo | 2010 | Little, Brown |
| They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: the Birth of an American Terrorist Group | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | 2010 | Houghton Mifflin |
| Zombies vs. Unicorns | Black, Holly & Justine Larbalestier, editors. | 2010 | Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| The Hate List | Brown, Jennifer | 2009 | Little, Brown |
| Six Rules of Maybe | Caletti, Deb | 2010 | Simon Pulse |
| Fire | Cashore, Kristin | 2009 | Dial |
| Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda | Combres, Elisabeth | 2009 | Groundwood Books/ House of Anansi Press |
| Accomplice | Corrigan, Eireann | 2010 | Scholastic Press |
| We Were Here | De La Pena, Matt | 2009 | Delacorte Press |
| The Musician's Daughter | Dunlap, Susanne | 2009 | Bloombury |
| Happyface | Emond, Stephen | 2010 | Little, Brown |
| The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba | Engle, Margarita | 2010 | Henry Holt & Co. |
| Incarceron | Fisher, Catherine | 2010 | Dial |
| You Don't Even Know Me: Stories and Poems About Boys | Flake, Sharon G. | 2010 | Jump at the Sun |
| The Morgue and Me | Ford, John C. | 2009 | Viking |
| Will Grayson, Will Grayson | Green, John & Levithan, David | 2010 | Dutton |
| Fallout | Hopkins, Ellen | 2010 | McElderry Books |
| Eli the Good | House, Silas | 2009 | Candlewick |
| The Secret Year | Hubbard, Jennifer | 2010 | Viking |
| Almost Perfect | Katcher, Brian | 2009 | Delacorte Press |
| Jumping Off Swings | Knowles, Jo | 2009 | Candlewick Press |
| A Sweet Disorder | Kolosov, Jacqueline | 2009 | Disney Hyperion |
| Hold Still | LaCour, Nina | 2009 | Dutton |
| Tangled | Mackler, Carolyn | 2010 | Harper Teen |
| Flash Burnout | Madigan, L.K. | 2009 | Houghton Mifflin |
| The Rock and The River | Magoon, Kekla | 2009 | Aladdin/Simon & Schuster |
| Finnikin of the Rock | Marchetta, Melina | 2010 | Candlewick |
| Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl | Marrin, Albert | 2009 | Dutton Children's Books |
| Purple Heart | McCormick, Patricia | 2009 | Harper Collins |
| Shooting Star | McKissack Jr., Frederick | 2009 | Atheneum Books |
| Gringolandia: A Novel | Miller-Lachmann, Lyn | 2009 | Curbstone Press |
| The Secret to Lying | Mitchell, Todd | 2010 | Candlewick |
| The Sky is Everywhere | Nelson, Jandy | 2010 | Dial |
| Birthmarked | O'Brien, Caragh M. | 2010 | Roaring Brook Press |
| Before I Fall | Oliver, Lauren | 2010 | HarperCollins |
| Dirty Little Secrets | Omololu, C.J. | 2010 | Walker & Co |
| Marching for Freedom: Walk together, children, and don't you grow weary | Partridge, Elizabeth | 2009 | Viking |
| The Interrogation of Gabriel James | Price, Charlie | 2010 | Farrar Straus Giroux |
| Sorta Like a Rockstar | Quick, Matthew | 2010 | Little, Brown |
| Diary of a Witness | Ryan Hyde, Catherine | 2009 | Knopf |
| Chasing Brooklyn | Schroeder, Lisa | 2010 | Simon Pulse |
| Revolver | Sedgwick, Marcus | 2010 | Roaring Brook Press |
| Shiver | Stiefvater, Maggie | 2009 | Scholastic |
| Last Summer of the Death Warriors | Stork, Francisco X | 2010 | Arthur A Levine |
| Wish You Were Dead | Strasser, Todd | 2009 | Egmont |
| Borderline | Stratton, Allan | 2010 | Harper Teen |
| Lips Touch Three Times | Taylor, Laini | 2009 | Scholastic |
| Num8ers | Ward, Rachel | 2010 | Chicken House / Scholastic |
| Leviathan | Westerfeld, Scott | 2009 | Simon Pulse |
| Glimpse | Williams, Carol Lynch | 2010 | Simon & Schuster |
| Jumped | Williams-Garcia, Rita | 2009 | HarperTeen/Amistad |
| Cold Hands, Warm Heart | Wolfson, Jill | 2009 | Henry Holt & Co. |
| The Monstrumologist | Yancey, Rick | 2009 | Simon & Schuster |
| Once Was Lost | Zarr, Sara | 2009 | Little, Brown |
To view last years selections and more information about the TAYSHAS list and committee go HERE
(please note that the website has not been updated with the 2011 list)
Recognize any? I sure do! Most notably; Freefall, Candor, Happyface, Incarceron, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Fallout. Great list and I hope it serves an inspiration for reading and gift buying this season!
Happy Reading!
